Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 36

In the evening when he took them home they had not much milk, the place was so bare, and his meat and drink was but spare that night.

Who acts: hardship, cattle, place, meat · What happens: take, have, be · To what, where: cattle, much milk

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hardship, cattle, place, meat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 took	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	home	home	ADV	_	6 took	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 milk	amod
13	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bare	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 place	det
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bare	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bare	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 bare	advmod
19	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 milk	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spare	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spare	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 meat	nmod:poss
23	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spare	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drink	cc
25	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meat	conj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 spare	cop
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 spare	cc
28	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 took	conj
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spare	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	hardship	cattle	evening	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	have	past	cattle	much milk			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
3	is	past	the place	much milk not said here		bare property	tree rules
4	is	past	hardship's meat and drink		night	spare property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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